A record revival is happening!

NME reported figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) showing in the month of August £2.4m was spent on vinyl against £2.1m on digital album downloads.

There are a couple of factors that contributed to this including the Annual Record Store Day, which just keeps getting bigger, the Christmas rush, and the fact that massive supermarket chains Tesco and Sainsbury’s are now selling vinyl.

There will always be something about vinyl- it's stood the test of time through CDs, cassettes, digital and it looks like its back in a big way.

Jet announced they were getting back together to support Bruce Springsteen on his 2017 Australian tour, along with two headlining shows in Sydney. This is the first time the chart topping band have performed together since 2012.

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The legendary rockers sure do have a colourful history, from being friends with INXS singer Michael Hutchence, to taking a chance on a young Guns N’ Roses and the reunion with The Doors. The Cult singer Ian Astbury opened up about it all.

Astbury revealed he saw a very young Gunners live and invited them to join The Cult on tour back in 1987, which was a great opening for the little band at that time saying “I just saw them and was blown away”- after that tour the Gunners career took off- this tour being the start of the whirl wind we know as Guns N’ Roses.

As if having Guns N’ Roses open for you isn’t impressive enough, that same year the band toured with Iggy Pop and the late David Bowie.

On the loss of Bowie, Astbury revealed “I felt like the roof had come off the house, I’d always looked to him since I was 10 years old for inspiration".

Astbury with Bowie:

Another great loss for Astbury was his good friend, Michael Hutchence.

Reflecting on the charismatic singer, Astbury remembers Hutchence as a ‘gentleman’ and really felt for him for how the media treated him. Having last saw him only a week prior to his tragic death.

On the once in a lifetime event where Astbury fronted The Doors in 2002, Astbury being a huge fan of the late singer, Jim Morrison, he said the conversation of him singing with The Doors was going on for 12 years and our own Michael Hutchence was a contender for the gig.

The band who reissued the 1991 hit record Out Of Time this year haven’t played together since they disbanded in 2011, although frontman Michael Stipe returned to the stage this year in a tribute to the late David Bowie.

In recent news Rollingstone.com reported Michael Stipe is ready to play music again.

Will the Grammy Hall Of Fame induction spark a reunion with the legendary 90s band?

25 years after its release and the Nirvana hit single is still making headlines.

Image: Nirvana

The Grammy Hall of Fame announced this week the induction of 25 new songs in 2017, including the Nirvana classic ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’.

The Grammy Hall of Fame was established by The Recording Academy’s National Trustees in 1973 to honour recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old and the Nirvana hit single was added as soon it could qualify.

Along with Nirvana other rock'n'rollers added to the list is R.E.M,Deep Purple, Prince and David Bowie.